Comments on: Should I Buy an SUV? http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2010/06/04/should-i-buy-an-suv/ Discussions of religion and ethics from an atheist perspective Mon, 06 May 2013 16:01:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: ideclare http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2010/06/04/should-i-buy-an-suv/comment-page-1/#comment-1423 ideclare Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:04:07 +0000 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/?p=1551#comment-1423 “On the other hand, if your little kid innocently ran into the neighbor’s yard and got hit with water balloons or, worse, got caught in a bear trap, you would probably be understandably mad at the owner of that house!”

In which case it is indeed a Q2 violation for you to place these kinds of traps. If you would blame someone else for setting a trap that was accidentally triggered by an innocent, then you must accept responsibility if a trap you set is triggered by an innocent. If you don’t want to accept that responsibility, then, by Q2, you can’t set a trap.

]]> By: Zach http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2010/06/04/should-i-buy-an-suv/comment-page-1/#comment-1422 Zach Sun, 06 Jun 2010 02:45:17 +0000 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/?p=1551#comment-1422 It doesn’t seem to be a Q2 violation if you place people who are trying to rob you or trespass on your property in potential harms way, as long as you are okay with other people doing that to you if you decide to rob them or trespass, which I would assume you wouldn’t want to do. On the other hand, if your little kid innocently ran into the neighbor’s yard and got hit with water balloons or, worse, got caught in a bear trap, you would probably be understandably mad at the owner of that house!

]]> By: NFQ http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2010/06/04/should-i-buy-an-suv/comment-page-1/#comment-1420 NFQ Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:28:11 +0000 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/?p=1551#comment-1420 It seems fair in general to me to take actions that benefit me at the cost of possible harm to others when those others were doing something I would consider immoral in the first place. With proportionality considered, of course. I have no major qualms about the bear trap beneath the window trap robbers (though it’s probably a bit overkill, you could have some less gruesome trap and it would be preferable), and I have no problem at all with the water balloon cannon. Hoarding food during a shortage seems reprehensible based on my assumption that the other people are not responsible for the shortage — that it’s beyond the control of everyone who would be impacted by my hoarding. And so on. I’m not sure how, if at all, this kind of reasoning could be incorporated into your 2Q system.

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